#0915 · 🐦 birds

Dark-eyed Junco

🇳🇱 Grijze Junco ·Junco hyemalis

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

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what is it?

The dark-eyed junco ( Junco hyemalis ) is a species of the juncos, a genus of small grayish American sparrows. This bird is common across much of temperate North America and in summer ranges far into the Arctic. It is a very variable species, much like the related fox sparrow ( Passerella iliaca ), and its systematics are still not completely untangled.

base stats

NL sightings 4iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 255,029iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).